Never seen cast handles myself but I did see a few years ago a guy selling steel reinforcement plates cut (presumably) on a waterjet. To install, you sliced each of the door handle pivot arms down the middle with a bandsaw or hacksaw and epoxied the plate in the middle. This might be an easier...

Nice. I've been looking into doing the same thing. The wiring diagram shows a black/blue line running from the ETACS ECU. I was going to check it with a scope and then maybe inline a NC momentary pushbutton switch on it. Is this what I want?

On word of warning if you need to replace the shear pin; don't use a piece of coat hangar or other random rod or wire as suggested in the link. I've tried them all and always ended up having to do the whole process 6-mo to a year later.The problem I found with coat hangar wire is that it's...